In later interviews Rod Stieger talked about his service in the navy. He was a crewman on a destroyer escorting the Doolittle Raid task force. He was an anti-aircraft gunner.
After his parents divorced, he, and his alcoholic mother moved to NJ. He quit Westside HS. at age 16 [1941] and went in the Navy; served on a destroyer in the Pacific during WW2. Returned to NJ, and...
There were sixteen B-25 Mitchell medium bombers on the raid. This was all that could be crowded on the deck of the USS Hornet, and still leave enough flight deck forward so the first ones had room to...